About the Museum:

In 1919 Bagasse Mumblestoats, fresh from his WWI tour in France with the famed Lafayette Espadrilles, returned to his home town of Redbone with a burning desire. It was eventually cured with liberal doses of salvarsan and mercury, which allowed the young Bagasse to wed his childhood sweetheart, Gematria Pulverington-Wheatwhistle, heiress to the fabled Wheatwhistle tinsel-mining fortune. Gematria shared her husband's  vision of a museum in Redbone that would attract worldwide attention and "really put the place on the map," as she so often put it.

Bagasse had liberated many paintings from French restaurants, bars and bordellos, and this became the foundation for the Mumblestoats collection. As all collections profit from a common theme, the Mumblestoats decided to specialize in the art of the Depressionist school, which most other museums rejected as being too miserable, dejected and hopeless to warrant space on a wall.

Depressionism, according to the landmark Johnson & Jansen "Big Book o' Art Stuff," is not limited to a single place or time. Instead it reflects the low point of an otherwise highly regarded artist's career. Picasso's "Blue Period" is a perfect example of this creative state of mind. Mrs. Mumblestoats describes it perfectly when she says "that boy was lower than an ant's bellybutton."

The complete catalogue raisonné of the Bagasse & Gematria Mumblestoats' Museum of Depressionist Art is now available online, with commentary graciously supplied by Gematria Mubblestoats and the museum's curator emeritus, Mr. Harvey Skopskie Bassoon.  Also available for online visitors is the independently administered sculpture wing of the Museum, the Gladys Dwindlebimmers Ralston Gallery of the Unidentifiable. Please visit the Gallery after you have toured the paintings of the Museum.

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Doctor Jekyll's Last Experiment Morgue Bros   The Heartbreak of Table Tennis in the Era Before Tennis Tables Andrew Ambrose

(click on a painting for detailed view and commentary)
Rhino Auf Dotz	Unfinished Portrait Of George Washington		Road Rage 1512	Daycare Hell
Self Portrait with New Hat	Back of 'Autumn Landscape' with Waterfowl		Woman Wearing Chastity Suit	Whistler's Overbearing Mother

Santa on the Skids	Office Xmas Party, London Society of Morticians, 1905	Moaner Lisa	Self-Portrait of the Artist with His Ex-Wives
Carnivore Cruise Lines: Economy Class	Saturday Night at Tony's Pizza Palace	Fallen Angels?	The Fraternity Party Gets Out of Hand

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